I was surprised to find that this was my first visit to Robin Hood Hill since last June. Normally, I try to get to the main locations at least once a quarter which covers each season, although I don’t do any formal planning in this respect.
Looking back to previous years, Robin Hood Hill does seem to feature more often in spring when the oilseed crop starts to flower. The vibrant yellows are always an attraction and crop rotation varies the location of the colour each year. This year’s offering will be posted in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, something strange happened for this selection from March. Somehow I had changed the camera settings from average white balance to 8500K. I think I must have engaged the touch screen unknowingly which accessed the settings and made the change.
Initially, I didn’t notice, even when processing the first results. I had taken some shots into the late sunlight and expected the results to be warm so it never occurred to make any correction. I even uploaded the results to social media:
I finally realised what had happened when processing the rest of the images and created ‘auto corrected’ versions of the above photos. Basically, the software determines a ‘likely’ white balance from the photo content, with one of the corrected version shown below:
The corrected version looks more natural when a side-by-side comparison is made, but I don't dislike the original. In fact, it reminds me that all photographs are an interpretation and not necessarily as we see things. Art shows that we have the capacity to accept or even enjoy exaggerated colours - there is no right or wrong.
With that in mind, I went on the guesstimate the colour temperature for the rest of the photographs from this visit. Most ended up somewhere in between the ‘as shot’ and the ‘auto corrected’ versions shown above. These were some of the results:
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